Preamble This post is the first of a series considering three major issues under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: the impact of how the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has defined rights; the relationship between rights; and the relationship between guarantees of rights and freedoms and section 1 of the Charter. I focus...Read More

This post was co-created by Kari Boyle and Matt Sims, with help from ChatGPT. “How do we create value that is distinct from what machines can do faster and cheaper? The answers will shape our future.” Greg Satell, Note 1 The legal profession is experiencing a transformational shift, with AI and automation changing the way...Read More

In “Open Access & Legal Scholarship” Revisited: Part I, Hannah revisited John Bolan’s “exceptions to the exception” of the lack of open access (OA) in law. She considered the success story of CanLII, commercial repositories, increased interdisciplinarity, and the access to justice movement. In part II we would like to consider some of the factors...Read More

 Zero Trust Architecture simplified Lawyers have a “deer in the headlights” look whenever we talk about Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) – and we do understand that look. ZTA is complicated and often causes your eyes to glaze over about two minutes after we bring ZTA into the conversation. Let’s keep it as simple as a...Read More

Today’s Tips Tuesday features a tip regarding one of the most under-rated features in Microsoft Word: Read Aloud. Located under the “Review” tab in the ribbon, Read Aloud does exactly what it sounds like: it will read your document back to you, aloud so that you can hear the grammatical or wording errors you may have...Read More

Members of Parliament are expected to advocate for their constituents. However, when that MP is a Minister of the Crown (or a Parliamentary Secretary) there are limits on how far that advocacy can go. Interference by a Minister in a particular case before a tribunal has long been considered as an inappropriate interference with tribunal...Read More

Ever had a moment where you as soon as you hit send on that e-mail, you realized: That you’d forgotten to attach your attachment; You’d attached the wrong attachment; You didn’t want to say what you’d said in that e-mail or wanted to revise it; You were working in off-hours and actually wanted to send...Read More

While British legislation is now cited in the format Northern Ireland Act 1998 (UK), s 5, pre-1963 legislation (which is more likely to be referred to in Canadian courts than the newer legislation) is slightly more complicated. 1 Older British legislation is cited using a regnal year, e.g. Statute of Frauds, 1677, 29 Cha II,...Read More

At the beginning of each month, we tell you which three English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. La version française suit. For this past month, the three most-consulted English-language decisions were: Pivnick...Read More

In 2011, the TALL Quarterly published a brief article authored by John Bolan, Public Services Librarian at the Bora Laskin Law Library (University of Toronto). The article addressed the burgeoning open access movement for scholarly literature generally, with a focus on the lack and lag of open access literature within the discipline of law and...Read More